Project Grant 693JJ22640000Y44FCAT226001

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Reclamation under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078) provides $1,224,810.85 to Montana State University to address deficiencies in current snow monitoring through the deployment of emerging snow observation technologies. The project aims to enhance spatial characterization of snow cover using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) gamma-ray and LiDAR measurements, coupled with ground-based cosmic ray and gamma-ray snow water...

This $1,228,743.28 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Reclamation under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting (CFDA 15.078) program aims to improve water supply forecasts by enhancing snow monitoring through emerging technologies like aerial LiDAR surveys. The project will identify locations with unique snowpack dynamics not captured by existing monitoring networks and evaluate how incorporating LiDAR-derived snow data can improve forecasting accuracy compared to relying solely on...

This $996,259 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service (CFDA 10.907 - Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting program) aims to evaluate the potential of an automated mountain weather and snowpack monitoring network in the Northeastern U.S. and determine the number of sites, staff, and resources required to implement such a network. The University of New Hampshire is the prime awardee, and will collaborate with the...

This Project Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) under the Highway Research and Development Program (CFDA 20.200) provides $125,000 to the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) to integrate 8 existing weather stations into regional weather data systems and deploy a new enhanced weather station at a critical location on the Richardson Highway. Key tasks include project management, hardware procurement, weather station installation,...

The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded the University System of New Hampshire $2,662,875 on August 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to establish a regional snow and weather monitoring network across Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The University of New Hampshire, the awardee division, will lead the project with the University of Vermont, University of Maine, Vermont State University Lyndon, University of Maine at Farmington, and...

The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded the University of Vermont $3,259,097 on August 1, 2026, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to establish a regional snow and weather monitoring network across Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The project will install snow and weather measurement equipment at key locations to close observational gaps in Northern New England and advance understanding of snow accumulation and melt processes, orographic...

The U.S. Geological Survey awarded a $499,999 Cooperative Agreement under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) to Cornell University to develop a distributed sensor network that integrates edge-AI and photogrammetric techniques to automate real-time urban flood monitoring and mapping. Key deliverables include: A minimum viable product (MVP) sensor network to map urban pluvial flood extents and depths in real-time, including storm sewer stage...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Reclamation under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078) will address key knowledge gaps in understanding the impacts of wildfire on snow accumulation, ablation, and runoff generation. The $876,296.41 project, with a period of performance from January 4, 2024 to September 30, 2026, will leverage a network of automated stations and field studies initiated following the 2020 Cameron Peak and East Troublesome Fires in Colorado....

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078), will develop an advanced snow estimation product using a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model. The $1,270,676.70 project, with an award date of January 30, 2025 and a completion date of December 31, 2027, will leverage near-daily CubeSat data, ground observations, and LiDAR snow maps to enhance a process-based distributed hydrologic...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,060,448 Cooperative Agreement on December 20, 2023, under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078) to The Regents of the University of Colorado. This grant aims to improve water supply forecasts by enhancing snow monitoring through the deployment of emerging technologies, such as airborne LiDAR, and better integration of snow data into forecasting models. The project has two sub-awards - one to Oregon State University to assist in...